papers

papers is a command for Claude Code from stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins. It costs 28 tokens per session (337 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A paper-library command that downloads cited research papers and creates structured summaries in a project's references/papers/ folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build a verified reference library for design, experiment, or hypothesis documents, including local digest files and online source links.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of finding, checking, naming, downloading, and summarising research papers.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the datascience plugin — 20 skills, 15 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to build a verified reference library for design, experiment, or hypothesis documents, including local digest files and online source links.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins/papers
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install datascience, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 15 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for papers

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins/papers"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins/papers/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for papers

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins/papers"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins/papers.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 337 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00028 $0.00337
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00135
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00034

Measured 21d ago against content hash f763d8517b79, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

papers scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 21d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/datascience/commands/papers.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

Papers

Read this plugin's skill file skills/papers/SKILL.md first - it is the single source of truth for the artifact naming, the digest format, and the download / verify rules. Do NOT duplicate it here.

What to do

  1. Read this plugin's skill file skills/papers/SKILL.md
  2. Resolve each paper to a verified open-access PDF URL (prefer arXiv https://arxiv.org/pdf/<id>)
  3. Download into references/papers/[paper] <short name>, <year>.pdf; verify the %PDF magic header - never trust the extension
  4. Write references/papers/[paper digest] <short name>.md using the skill's digest prompt (bold-header title, overview, main findings, key takeaways, tags, source). **Source** MUST be the resolvable online provenance link - never a local filename or path
  5. Cite the digest from the calling document by its local filename; a citation without both artifacts is a defect
  6. Several papers in one round - batch: download all, verify all, digest all, then finalize the citing doc
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 21d ago Changed f763d8517b79
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 19 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 71514aa129f6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

papers is a command published in the GitHub repository stellarshenson/claude-code-plugins (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 337 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.